Belt-clamp for buckles.



No. 70|,09|.' Patented May 27, I902.

L. SANDERS. BELT CLAMP FOR BUCKLES.

(Application fi1ed Ap1-. 15I 1901.) (No Model.)

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UNTTE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS SANDERS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BELT-CLAMP FOR BUCKLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 701,091, dated May 27,1902.

Application filed April 15,1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS SANDERS, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the' city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Belt-Clamp for Buckles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a simple and economic clampfor a belt adapted to be used in connection with a buckle and to soconstruct the device that the ends of a belt may be readily andconveniently connected and the belt rendered larger or smaller to anyextent within the limit of its adjustment and securely held in itsadjusted position.

A further purpose of the invention is to so construct the device thatthe belt to which it is applied may be quickly and accurately adjustedwhile on the person.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the end portions of a belt and aperspective View of the improved device applied, the ends of the beltbeing shown as disconnected. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section throughthe parts shown in Fig. 1, the ends of the belt being shown connectedthrough the medium of the improved device and the accompanying buckle;and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device drawn upon an enlarged scale.

A and B represent the end portions of a belt adapted to be worn over agarment.

represents a buckle, which is removably and adj ustably connected withone end of the belt by passing the tongue of the buckle through one of aseries of eyelets and passing the belt through the body and eye of thebuckle.

The improved clamp 'D consists of a plate of metal or other desiredmaterial provided Serial No. 55,865. (No model.)

with a cross-bar 11 between its ends and parallel openings 12 and 13,one at each side of the cross-bar, as is particularly shown in Fig. 3. Aseries of sharp studs or spurs 14- is formed or produced upon the outerface of the cross-bar 11, and twin hooks 15 are located at one end ofthe plate, the hooks being separated by a recess 16. At the opposite endof the plate a loop 17 is formed; but this loop may be independent ofthe plate, if desired.

The belt is passed from the back of the plate or body of the clamp D,out through the openings 12, over the projections of the crossbar 11,and then down through the opening 13 to the back of the plate. Byloosening that portion of the belt which passes over the crossbar 11 theclamp may be adjusted as desired upon the belt to make the belt largeror smaller when its ends are connected. The buckle and clampbeing inposition on the belt, when the belt is to be fastened upon the personthe twin hooks 15 and the clamp are made to envgage'with the cross-barof the buckle with which the tongue is connected, the base of the tongueof the buckle being received in the recess 16 separating the hooks.

It will be observed that the belt may not only be quickly adjusted evenwhile on the person, but its ends may be expeditiously and convenientlyconnected. When the ends of the belt are connected, the end of the beltto which the buckle is applied will lie over the clamp D, concealing itwith the exception of the loop of the clamp when the buckle end of thebelt is passed through the loop.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent As a new article of manufacture, a be1tclamp forbuckles, consisting of an approximately'rectangular plate provided atone end with forwardly-projecting spaced hooks for engaging thetongue-bar of the belt-buckle,

at the other end with a loop projecting from its front face, throughwhich loop the free end of the belt which is engaged by the buckle isadapted to be passed so as to overlie the clamp, and intermediate of itsends with two spaced slots forming a cross-bar having spurs struck uptherefrom and projecting name to this specification in the presence offrom its front face, the said slots and crosst'wo subscribing witnesses.

bar serving as a means for securin one end of the belt to the clamp withits free end lying LOUIS SANDERS 5 in rear of the buckle when the clampis in en- \Vitnesses:

gagement with the buckle, as set forth. JNO. M. BITTER,

In testimony whereof I have signed my J. FRED. A KER.

